Commemorated:

1. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour49D GQS
    

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Early Life :

When John Penney was born in July 1878, his father, John, was 32 and his mother, Jane, was 30. He married Mary Ann Harrison on 20 May 1899. He had two brothers and two sisters. He married Mary Ann Harrison at Easington Lane, P.M. Chapel, on 20th May, 1899 when he was 20 years old.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: Royal Garrison Artillery 

Action : Post War 

Post War includes all operations in all theatres up to 31st August 1921. This excludes the campaign in Russia against the Bolsheviks. It also includes men who succombed to wounds post war and who died from various causes whilst still in the services but post war.

Detail :

Enlisted 25th November, 1915 as a Private 95110, but became 201997, Gunner John Penney, Royal Garrison Artillery. He spent time, initially at the No. 4 Depot of the R.G.A. as a Gunner, but was posted to 186th Howitzer Battery 19th July 1916. At the beginning of 1917 he transferred to 466 Howitzer Battery for four months and then 385th Battery, finishing his service with the 186th Battery again for the last part of his service.

He was discharged 1st September, 1917 having become physically unfit for military service.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Bernard Gilpin No. 3076 E.C.Durham

Initiated
Passed
Raised
15th February 1916
18th April 1916
25th May 1916
 

John is listed as John Penney in the records of the lodge at the United Grand Lodge of England. He is a 37 year old, Assistant Insurance Superintendant and resident at Hetton-le-Hole at the time of his initiation in 1916. In his short time in the lodge he pays his dues and shows no explicit war service in the contribution record, which is closed out with the note: "Died 6 Feb.1919."


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